Anyone ever heard of any tsb's on 5.4 motors blowing plugs out of the head?

My friend and I were delivering a mustang and on the way to Georgia, we heard a loud bang and sounding like the truck (2002 F150 Lariat) dropped a valve. Of course we had no tools, no flashlight, and we were in the middle of nowhere no how Georgia at 11:30 at night. Turned out the plug blew out of the head and took the threads with it. Ford says there is basicly nothing you can do but heliocoil it ($600) and do the same every time you change plugs and assume it will probably do it again, or buy a new motor $3,700!! I thought I've heard something about Lightnings blowing plugs out of the 5.4's and was wondering if this was an issue with those motors.

And Raymond, yes it was the course of the convertible. For everyone, I sold a convertible and the tranny broke, so I took it back and installed another tranny and promised to deliver the car. So we rented a uhaul trailer and they say, go hook up number 0626 after we did the paperwork, walked outside and there was no 0626!!!!! So we finally got that straightened out and another trailer and about gainesville the trailer lights quit working!!! Then of course the famous plug incident which we didn't realize it took threads with it (blew the plug wire and coil pack apart btw) and had to buy tools and plugs and try to fix it in the dark in a parking lot until about 3 this a.m.!!!